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John Welshman is a Senior Lecturer in Public health in the Institute for Health Research at the University of Lancaster. As an undergraduate John studied History at the University of York, and then completed a D.Phil thesis in Modern History at Oxford, where his postgraduate work was concerned with the development of the School Medical Service. Subsequently, he held research posts at Leicester and at Oxford, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
His work is at the interface of contemporary history, social policy, and public health. Current research interests include the history of the debate over transmitted deprivation; the history of care in the community, especially learning disability; the history of tuberculosis and migration; and the history of the concepts of unemployability and worklessness. Recent articles have appeared in Children & Society (2007); Economic History Review (2006); the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2006 and 2007); the Journal of Social Policy (2004); the Political Quarterly (2006); Social History of Medicine (2006); and Twentieth Century British History (2005).
His most recent books include Underclass: A History of the Excluded, 1880-2000 (London and New York, 2006) and a volume edited with Jan Walmsley, Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control, and Citizenship (London, 2006). His history of the debate over transmitted deprivation in the 1970s, entitled From Transmitted Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Policy, Poverty, and Parenting has just been published by the Policy Press (Bristol, 2007).
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